Only in Trump’s America Shiloh Hendricks has raised over $180,000 after a video of her allegedly hurling racist phrases at a five-year-old child went viral. You can watch the video on Instagram www.instagram.com/… but beware, it is infuriating. She...
The video does not include her saying it to the kid directly, but to the man (presumably father) confronting her, multiple times. Then she admits that yeah she did call the child the n-word because “he acts like one”.
She proudly and defiantly doubled and tripled down on it while being openly filmed. All she had to do was move on and nobody would have been the wiser. In a normal world, this would be a clear case of “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.
I truly hope the (presumably) dad also has some fundraising going on.
Not being protective of telling children anything such, but I have used ethnic slurs in the past, especially when answering other insults. And when you were being unjustly attacked, then slipped and said something bad, and then are being attacked for that too as if that justified the beginning, then it’s a natural reaction to double down on the unfortunate words too.
So, eh, depends on the situation. I think I have right to answer people attacking me and putting me into a fight-or-flight situation with any words, they’ll still be in the wrong. But if this is not what happened, then using someone’s race as an argument worthy of repetition should be punished.
I don’t understand what the goal behind making this comment could have been. You start off admitting to using ethnic slurs with an almost “whoopsy daisie” tone. The comment you replied to told you the situation but you still add a hypothetical situation about when you think it would be reasonable to use them. And the appeal to “natural reaction” to defend something that should’nt have happened in the first place. “When people question why I shot a guy, my natural reaction is to shoot them too” doesn’t excuse why you did the thing that got you questioned. There is no situation where you are on the right side when using a slur.
Wow.